James 5:5

Tree of Life Version

You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts for a day of slaughter.

Cross References

Psalm 17:14

from men, with Your hand, Adonai, from men of the world whose portion is in this life. You fill their belly with Your treasure —with plenty of children— and leave their surplus to their babes.

Psalm 73:7

Their eyes bulge out from fatness. The imaginations of their hearts run wild.

Proverbs 17:1

Better is dry crust with peace and quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.

Proverbs 7:14

“I had to sacrifice fellowship offerings; today I paid my vow.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, young man, in your childhood, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment.

Isaiah 22:13

But instead, there is joy and gladness, slaughtering cattle and killing sheep, meat and drinking wine! “Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die!”

Isaiah 3:16

Moreover Adonai says: “Since the Daughters of Zion are proud, and walk with outstretched necks and seductive eyes, walking and mincing as they go, making a jingling with their feet,

Isaiah 47:8

Now then, hear this, voluptuous one, dwelling securely, saying in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me! I will not sit as a widow, or know the loss of children,”

Isaiah 56:12

“Come, let’s get wine, let’s guzzle strong drink. Tomorrow will be like today, only even better!”

Jeremiah 12:3

But You have known me, Adonai. You see me, and examine my heart toward You. Drag them off like sheep for slaughter. Set them apart for the day of carnage.

Jeremiah 25:34

Wail, you shepherds, and cry! Wallow in the dust, you leaders of the flock! For the days of your slaughter and your dispersions are full. You will fall like a precious vase.

Ezekiel 16:49

Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, gluttony, and careless ease—so had she and her daughters—and she did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Ezekiel 39:17

“You, son of man”—thus says Adonai Elohim—“say to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field: ‘Assemble and come! Gather from all around to My sacrificial feast that I have prepared for you, a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel. You will eat flesh and drink blood.

Amos 6:1

Oy ! You who are at ease in Zion, trusting in Samaria’s hill! Distinguished ones of the foremost of nations— to whom the house of Israel comes

Luke 16:19

“Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, living it up in luxury every day.

Luke 16:25

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your life you received your good things, even as Lazarus received the bad things. But now he is comforted here, and you are tormented.

Romans 13:13

Let us walk properly as in the day—not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and envy.

1 Timothy 5:6

But she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives.

2 Timothy 3:4

treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

2 Peter 2:13

They will be paid back for what they have done—evil for evil. They consider carousing in broad daylight a pleasure. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceitful pleasures while feasting together with you.

Jude 1:12

These people are hidden rocky reefs at your love feasts—shamelessly feasting with you, tending only to themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, doubly dead, uprooted;

Revelation 18:7

As she has exalted herself and indulged herself in luxury, so give her the same measure of torment and grief! For in her heart she says, ‘I sit as a queen— I am no widow; I shall never see grief.’

1 Samuel 25:36

Then Abigail went to Nabal, and there he was holding a banquet in his house like that of a king—Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was quite drunk. So she told him nothing at all until daybreak.

1 Samuel 25:6

Thus you will say: ‘Long life! And shalom to you, shalom to your house and shalom to all that is yours.